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Yaverland
Sign in to savethumb|right|Yaverland Sailing and Boat Club thumb|right|Yaverland eco toilets. thumb|The beach at Yaverland, with Culver Cliff (white chalk) in the distance thumb|Yaverlandia skull, found in Yaverland Yaverland is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sandown, on the Isle of Wight, England. It is just north of Sandown on Sandown Bay. It has about 200 houses. About of a mile away from the village is the Yaverland Manor and Church. Holotype fossils have been discovered here of Yaverlandia and a pterosaur, Caulkicephalus. The White Air extreme sports festival was held annually a
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- Sandown
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- England
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- United Kingdom
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- United Kingdom
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thumb|right|Yaverland Sailing and Boat Club thumb|right|Yaverland eco toilets. thumb|The beach at Yaverland, with Culver Cliff (white chalk) in the distance thumb|Yaverlandia skull, found in Yaverland Yaverland is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sandown, on the Isle of Wight, England. It is just north of Sandown on Sandown Bay. It has about 200 houses. About of a mile away from the village is the Yaverland Manor and Church. Holotype fossils have been discovered here of Yaverlandia and a pterosaur, Caulkicephalus. The White Air extreme sports festival was held annually at Yaverland pay and display car park between 1997 and 2008, but moved to Brighton for 2009.
== Name == The name means 'the cultivated land or estate where boars are kept', from Old English eofor and land.
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